Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great pity that sand has been sprinkled on this walks in the yard, thus destroying the skating and sliding which is so dear to "ye Harvard student...
...This sketch, one of the most admirable, both for accuracy and for the general tone of treatment which have been published for some time, de serves the careful perusal of all who are interested in the welfare of "the foremost university of America." The paper is written with great care and presents most impartially the social condition of life at Harvard as it at present exists. With the exception of the one or two remarks of questionable taste, the paper must meet with a hearty approval from all. The advice concerning the value of obtaining introductions to the social circles...
...worthy men who uphold the compulsory system undoubtedly long to bring into the church students who are out of it, and they believe that by compelling such students to go to church they may attain their end. But we are satisfied that they are making a great blunder. They are trying to win those who are out of the fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion...
...same time, pleasant as the professional relations of students and instructors are, the great size of the college and the consequently great expense of any formal entertainments prevents these relations from generally becoming more than professional. A few exceptionally good scholars find warm and sympathetic friends in their instructors, and students who are personally introduced to instructors are sure of a cordial welcome. But here the matter ends. I know of hardly any instance where an offer has been neglected to improve opportunities to know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths...
Yale isn't backward in tooting her little horn when occasion offers. At the alumni banquet in New York the other night, Mr. Depew allowed that Harvard and Princeton might lock horns on the great questions of destiny in the next world, but that Yale is satisfied for the present with giving the country sound law through her Chief Justice Waite, enacting wise laws by her Senator Evarts, constructing a navy worthy of our rank among nations and our proper defence through her Secretary of the Navy, Whitney, and rising to the best traditions of the diplomacy, scholarship...